Do you have a business or are in charge of a business’ tech security? Get some tips from PC Authority’s experts.

A lot has been made of the coming introduction of 3G, a network that will provide broadband-like speeds to mobile phones. The introduction of the service will, if the pundits are to be believed, creat

Digital video camera technology is constantly changing. The transition from analog to digital has been slow, with tape still being the standard. But, while the Mini DV tape may be the most popular recording media today, many experts tip that within a few years most of us will be recording direct to disk. Already several companies are producing DVD-based camcorders and with the introduction of Blu-Ray disks in coming years it seems the days of tape may be limited.

Sixteen notebooks under $2500, we've separated the winners with the goods from the less impressive performers.

Store it in your pocket. PC Authority takes fifteen USB drives for a spin around the block.

With no sign of the end of the format war coming to pass anytime soon, prices continue to fall and we’ve got the latest models to take a look at.

While hard disk drive speed is commonly one of the last considerations when putting together a new machine, its importance is more than just a place to store your files and operating system.

As stated in the introduction, there are only four real TFT panel manufacturers in the world, so it’s no surprise that you come across eerily similar products every now and again, as each OEM supplies displays for a multitude of companies.

Early last year we predicted that 2003 would be the year of the TFT, and we were proven right. TFT prices tumbled to affordable levels, and for the first time TFTs were arriving that had comparable quality to CRTs.

Got a PC riddled with more viruses than a bus driver’s armpit? The PC Authority Labs team has tested 10 leading anti-virus packages to see which ones really deliver the goods and keep your PC clean.

Every office, whether it is a small, medium or large corporate environment, needs a printer for its day-to-day operations - this is a given. Despite the cliché that is the paperless office, streamlined electronic information exchange and the continued sales of inkjet and laser printers would suggest this is still not a reality and we think it may not be for some time.

Many people fantasise about owning a plasma screen because of the massive image sizes and are getting excited because the prices are rapidly dropping, but in the projector world the prices have already dropped so far that for under a few grand you can now buy something that projects an image larger than four plasma screens. Compare that to the price of a plasma screen and see which way the scales tip.

Small form factor PCs have been around for a while, and barebones PCs for even longer. Traditionally a barebones PC is a basic shell, including a case, power supply and motherboard at minimum, and occasionally tooled up with a few extras like RAM.

Hard drives used to be the coolest thing - in the olden days, when all home PCs were slow, a hard drive was often a measure of how 'good' your computer was. For quite sometime, however, processor and graphics technology stole the limelight. Hard drives have been taken for granted - an ambient component that accompanies your sparkling graphics card and gi-normous heat sink.

Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth that emanates from the bowels of music industry boardrooms, technologies and devices that enhance the portability of music continue to grow in popularity. The concern is not over the proliferations of the gadgets themselves, it's about the files that are loaded onto them, which have flooded peer-to-peer networks, cardboard boxes under flea market counters and the hard drives of computer users across the world.

Now more than ever before bulk optical storage is available to the masses with the steadily falling prices of both the drives and media. This month we look at the feasibility of ditching that CD-RW drive in favour of updating to something with a little more room to grow.

This month, the PC Authority Labs team looks at a colourful range of printers suitable for the small-medium office market.

The digital revolution is entering a new, more mature phase. The early adopters are now on to their second or third generation of digital equipment, prices have come down to a more consumer oriented level, and the general public is becoming more digitally aware.

We've taken seven top business PCs and run them through their paces to find out which should be your next upgrade.

Are you kicking around an old clunky PC that looks like a relic from the Stone Age? Google Zeitgeist (www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html) tells us that while Windows XP accounted for 46 percent of the OSs used to search Google during February 2004, 24 percent were still using Windows 98 and Windows 95, indicating there are still a lot of late-1990s PCs kicking around. Even if you’re running something from the 1GHz days, it’s probably time to think about an upgrade. But it can easily get to the point where you’re upgrading just about every component. In that case, you should seriously consider looking at the excellent bargains available in new PCs today.